Intro:
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Ooh ooh ooh  a ooh a ooh,  ooh ooh ooh  a ooh a ooh

Verse 1:
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Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
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I've got some real-estate here in my bag
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So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies
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And walked off to look for America
 
Verse 2:
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Cathy I said as we boarded the Greyhound in Pittsburg
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Michigan seems like a dream to me now
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It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
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And I've come to look for America
 
Bridge:
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Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
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I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
 
Verse 3: 
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Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat
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We smoked the last one an hour ago
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So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
        E    D    A       D    Bm   D  G
And the moon rose over an open field

Verse 4:
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Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
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I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
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Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
        E   A       E         Dmaj7
They've all come to look for America
        E   A       E         Dmaj7
They've all come to look for America
        E   A       E         Dmaj7  D
They've all come to look for America
 
Outro -x2-:
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Do do do do-da-do, do do do do-da-do